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--ROMANCES AND MINOR POEMS. By _Henry Glassford Bell_. Fcap. 8vo. 6_s_.

"_Full of life and genius_."--_Court Circular_.




Besant.
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--STUDIES IN EARLY FRENCH POETRY. By _Walter Besant_, M.A. Crown. 8vo.
8_s_. 6_d_.

_A sort of impression rests on most minds that French literature begins
with the "siecle de Louis Quatorze;" any previous literature being for the
most part unknown or ignored. Few know anything of the enormous literary
activity that began in the thirteenth century, was carried on by Rulebeuf,
Marie de France, Gaston de Foix, Thibault de Champagne, and Lorris; was
fostered by Charles of Orleans, by Margaret of Valois, by Francis the
First; that gave a crowd of versifiers to France, enriched, strengthened,
developed, and fixed the French language, and prepared the way for
Corneille and for Racine. The present work aims to afford information and
direction touching the early efforts of France in poetical literature._

"_In one moderately sized volume he has contrived to introduce us to the
very best, if not to all of the early French poets_."--_Athenæum_.